Head of Saint John the Baptist (one of a pair)

ca. 1500–1510
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 544
Cut from larger compositions, the heads of Christ and Saint John the Baptist have been inserted into surrounds of various pieces of contemporaneous glass, cut and arranged to suggest clothing, pillars, vegetation, and sky. Active as a glass painter in Rouen and elsewhere in Normandy, the master, Arnold of Nijmegen, often relied on designs from Parisian workshops that were circulated around 1500.

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Object Information
  • Title: Head of Saint John the Baptist (one of a pair)
  • Artist: Master of the Life of Saint John the Baptist (French, active early 16th century)
  • Artist: Circle of Arnold of Nijmegen
  • Date: ca. 1500–1510
  • Culture: French, possibly Rouen
  • Medium: Colored, stained, and enemaled glass
  • Dimensions: Diameter: 13 1/2 in. (34.3 cm);
    Frame: 28 3/4 × 19 3/4 in. (73 × 50.2 cm)
  • Classification: Glass-Stained
  • Credit Line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1916
  • Object Number: 16.32.118
  • Curatorial Department: European Sculpture and Decorative Arts

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